Moulin De Gassac Guilhem - Pinot Noir 2021

“Aromas of crushed red and dark cherry lead off on the nose and continue on the palate with great freshness, minerality, and balance. Mid-weight, with lovely cherry notes and a hint of earth and cranberry fruit, soft tannins, and a clean long finish belie this wine’s humble price tag. Without doubt the best bargain in Pinot Noir I have ever had. You aren’t going to wax prophetically over this like you would a top Burgundy at 5-10 times the price, but you are going to LOVE it for a great every drinker. Food friendly and great with anything from grilled meaty fish to burgers, grilled meats and more.” 

Stock up on this one by the case - open to taste all week! And don’t forget about Gassac’s incredible best buy rosé for just $10.99! By volume our best selling rosé, and one of our best selling wines period!

 

Leave it to the talented team at Mas Daumas Gassac to come up with a true unicorn wine - a delicious, varietally correct, balanced and delicious Pinot for well under $15. Pinot Noir is a true Goldilocks wine - it likes it juuuust right. Not too hot, not too cold, not too warm or wet. It is thin skinned and subject to disease, it needs just the right growing conditions and hard work in the vineyard to come out right. It quickly overripens, going pruney and flabby in a snap. Too cool and it won’t ripen enough, resulting in green, thin tart wines. 

The answer with most cheap Pinots, especially in California where a wine only need be 75% of its named grape variety, is blending in other grapes (up to 25%), and using all kinds of unholy processing in the winery to clean up and “fix” the wines. What you get often tastes concocted (it usually is) and nothing like true Pinot (because often it’s not.)

 

Well there are none of those smoke and mirror tactics at Gassac. One of the famed estates in the Languedoc, this top tier winery Located in the majestic Gassac Valley, the estate benefits from the cool microclimate derived from the Gassac River, several natural springs (from which the Guibert family drinks), and the influence of the nearby mountains. The soil that dominates the valley is a rare and still unexplained red, powder-fine glacial soil, which is strikingly similar to that found in the prime areas of Burgundy. This combination of characteristics is quite unique in Southern France.

Several years back, the Guibert family began working with a neighboring cooperative in Sète to produce fun, full-flavored wines from the surrounding countryside and rocky hillsides. Organic farming is de rigueur and the vinification is closely overseen by the Guibert family. The results are splendidly aromatic wines that bring out the terroir of this Mediterranean region. The Moulin de Gassac wines are named after the patron saint of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, one of the most stunningly beautiful villages in Europe drawing people from all over the world. There is a delicious aromatic white, a luscious dry rosé, and a lovely fleshy, spicy, garrigue-influenced red, and now and amazingly Burgundy-like Pinot for a terrific price.